Ivan Shishkin1832–1898Campi di segale
Rye Fields
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Galleria Tret'jakov
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About the painting
Rye (Russian: Рожь), sometimes A Rye Field, is an oil painting finished in 1878 by the Russian painter Ivan Shishkin. It depicts a field of rye near the village of Lekarevo, west of Yelabuga in Tatarstan. It measures 107 cm × 187 cm (42 in × 74 in) and is held by the Tretyakov Gallery.
Shishkin was born in 1832 into a Russian merchant family in Yelabuga, then in Vyatka Governorate (today the Republic of Tatarstan), beside the Kama River some 200 km (120 mi) east of Kazan. As with many of his works, this painting draws from the countryside near his early home. It includes two common elements from Shishkin's work: pine trees, and a road leading away from the viewer. Two earlier works in the collection of the Tretyakov, made by Shishkin in the 1860s, show travellers among fields of rye.
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The work is based on a pencil sketch of a field of rye near Lekarevo, which the artist made during a trip with his daughter in 1877, on which he wrote "Эта" (Russian for 'this one'). Notes on another sketch reveal his thoughts: "Раздолье, простор, угодье. Рожь. Божья благодать. Русское богатство" ('Expanse, space, land. Rye. God's grace. Russian wealth')
The painting depicts a field of ripening yellow rye among scattered pine trees, ripening under a hazy blue summer sky, but with threatening clouds in the distance. A country track leads off into the field, with the tiny heads of two people barely visible amid the rye. A swallow swoops past the wildflowers beside the track. The large trees amid the crops are survivors of the forest cleared to make the field. The painting is signed and dated in the lower right corner, "И. Шишкинъ. 1878" ('I. Shishkin. 1878').
The completed work was exhibited at the sixth exhibition of the Peredvizhniki (Russian for 'the Wanderers') in 1878. It was bought that year by Pavel Tretyakov, whose collection has grown into the Tretyakov Gallery.
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- Galleria Tret'jakov: the museum's own open data · acquisita 4 giorni fa
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Nel frattempo, nella vita di Ivan Shishkin
Tutta la vita1873, 1878
World's Fairs in Vienna and Paris
He took part in the world's fairs in Vienna (1873) and Paris (1878).
1878
The Album "25 Engravings on Copper"
He published a second album, "25 Engravings on Copper by I. I. Shishkin," prepared for print with the help of his friend, the landscape painter I. V. Volkovsky.
May – October 1879
His Only Trip to the Crimea
Accompanied by the landscape painter Efim Volkov and his pupil Andrei Shilder, he toured the entire southern coast of the Crimea (Gurzuf, Alupka, Alushta, with an ascent of Ai-Petri); he brought back studies, drawings, and pastels, on the basis of which he painted pictures for the 8th Peredvizhniki exhibition of 1880.
